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February 28, 2005
Philosophers' Carnival X
The tenth Philosophers' Carnival is up at E.G.
Posted by Jeremy at 8:41 AM
More Bennett Translations
Jonathan Bennett's translations of early modern philosophy texts into the English of our own day have two new additions. Locke's Second Treatise on Government and Malebranche's Dialogues on Metaphysics are now completed. He's currently working on Mill's Utilitarianism On Liberty. I'm especially glad he's included Malebranche. He says he's planning to revise that translation while working on Mill. I don't remember anyone mentioning that he added some chapters of Spinoza in November along with revising all the other texts posted at that time.
Posted by Jeremy at 1:10 AM | Comments (2)
February 24, 2005
Philosophers' Carnival X Plug
The next Philosophers' Carnival is coming up on Monday, so it would be good to submit entries soon to give the host time to put them together.
Posted by Jeremy at 5:41 PM
February 15, 2005
LeMoyne expulsion
FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) has picked up Scott McConnell's case -- he's the grad student in education who got kicked out of LeMoyne for writing a paper advocating corporal punishment and dissing multicultural education in public schools. Chuck linked to the story below. FIRE's comment is at: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/torch/#5307 I also noticed that National Review Online's group blog -- The Corner -- mentioned the case. http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp Can FOX News be far behind?
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February 14, 2005
More Intelligent Design
Reason's Ron Bailey has a post up suggesting a libertarian solution to the Intelligent Design vs Evolution kerfuffle going on in some public schools. It also has a decent overview of the debate as well. It's at: http://www.reason.com/rb/rb020905.shtml
Posted by dbzdak at 10:48 AM
February 5, 2005
Philosophers' Carnival IX
The ninth Philosophers' Carnival is now up at Studi Galileiani. For the first time ever, I believe, there are no entries from Ektopos blogs.
Posted by Jeremy at 6:57 PM
February 2, 2005
Philosophers' Carnival IX Plug
Sunday will be the ninth Philosophers' Carnival, so if you know any posts that would be good to submit, you should do so in the next few days.
Posted by Jeremy at 6:08 PM
Intelligent Design
Newsweek's new issue has a story touting a "controversial new theory [of the origin of life] called 'intelligent design'" The inspiration for the story is related to this new move to put stickers on biology textbooks noting that evolution is a "theory, not a fact...". But you'd think that Newsweek could've called someone up and found out how 'new' ID is. The story is at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6884904/site/newsweek/ Coincidentally, there's a story de-bunking ID in the new National Review, at: http://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/20050214/full.asp#050104
Posted by dbzdak at 1:51 PM | Comments (6)
Groundhog Day
A couple interesting articles I recently came across about the philosophical implications of the Bill Murray classic Groundhog Day. Seemed appropriate. First is the cover story by Jonah Goldberg from the new National Review -- I don't think it's out yet, but it's on-line (at least some of it is, you might need a subscription to read the whole thing). http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200502010801.asp Second is an older story by a theology prof. from Notre Dame -- Michael Foley. http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/17.3docs/17-03-012.html
Posted by dbzdak at 11:57 AM | Comments (5)